The Indians of New York.--Sir William Johnson and the Iroquois confederacy.--The struggle for supremacy.--New York under the Dutch.--The manor of Rensaelaerswyck.--New York as an English colony.--Albany as a colonial center.--Indian trails.--New York in the revolution.--New York in the border wars.--Burgoyne's invasion.--Sullivan's expedition.--Alexander Hamilton and the federal Constitution.--Robert R. Livingston and the Louisiana purchase.--William H. Seaward and the purchase of Alaska.--The Erie canal and the commercial supremacy of the state of New York.--Andrew Sloan Draper and the public school system of the state of New York

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